Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk guest room and corridor renovation work

[Project Description]
A renovation project involving 148 guest rooms across 4 floors and 22 floors of corridors.
Hilton Fukuoka Seahawk is an iconic symbol of the "Seaside Momochi district," which has been selected as one of Japan's 100 best urban landscapes, and its architectural shape is based on the concept of "a large ship setting sail on Hakata Bay."
In this renovation, we aimed to create a Hilton Fukuoka that would be loved by people all over the world for many years to come, drawing inspiration from the comfortable atmosphere of being on a ship and the sea views seen from a ship's deck. We envisioned the connections between people in Hakata Bay, which has long been a link between foreign countries, and the way people interact. Through the forms and compositions that arise from these "interactions," the textures that evoke a "ship's cabin," and the colors of Hakata Bay's unique "white sand and green pines," we concept design the hotel with these ideas in mind.

[Customer's challenges/requests]
The challenge was to create a flexible room layout to accommodate a variety of guests, including business travelers, leisure travelers, inbound tourists, and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) guests.
The long corridor required concept design that wouldn't give hotel guests a monotonous impression.

[Solution]
We've incorporated a feature into the headboard of the bed in each guest room, allowing it to be moved towards the center and thus arranged in a single room as either a twin or Hollywood twin configuration to suit guest requests.
The corridor features intersecting gradient lines of carpet that represent the trajectory of a ship, with the Hakata Bay side representing the sea, the center the sandy beach, and the city side the pine forest, creating an impressive concept design that incorporates the colors of the outside scenery into the interior.

<Our project members>
[Sales & Project Management] Masayuki Yoshimori, Nobuko Abe
[design, layout] Keita Aono, Naoaki Yokoyama, Jun Watanabe
[Production/ construction] Takayuki Pattern, Mitsuaki Kanayama